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The MEMRI Weekly: October 1-8, 2021

reported on that day's visit to Damascus, by a Saudi delegation headed by Saudi General Intelligence Directorate chief Khalid Al-Humaidan. At a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and his special security advisor Ali Mamlouk, the sides agreed to reopen the Saudi Embassy in Damascus, as a first step toward normalizing relations between the two countries. Also according to the daily, the Saudi delegation informed Assad that Saudi Arabia would support Syria's return to the Arab League, from which it had been suspended in 2011. The daily said that the Saudis were taking this step in ...

The MEMRI Weekly: April 9-16, 2021 April 15, 2021 The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.  

April 7, 2021 Special Dispatch No. 9278 In Petition To The Indian Supreme Court, Shi'ite Leader Waseem Rizvi Demands Removal Of 26 Verses From The Koran That Promote 'Militancy, Fundamentalism, Extremism, And Terrorism' April 7, 2021 Syed Waseem Rizvi, an Indian Shi'ite leader known for issuing provocative statements against the majority Sunni Muslim leadership to gain favor with the country's Hindu rightwing, has filed a petition in the Supreme Court of India seeking the removal of 26 verses of the Koran on the grounds that the verses spread extremism among Indian Muslims. Syed Waseem Ri...

Hizbullah Supporters, Opponents Exchange Blows Over Assassination Of Shi'ite Lebanese Activist Lokman Slim March 9, 2021 On February 4, 2021, Lebanese journalist and activist Lokman Slim, a vocal critic of Hizbullah, was found shot dead in his car in an area of South Lebanon known as a  Hizbullah stronghold. Some in Lebanon accused Hizbullah of assassinating him in order to silence him and also as a warning to other Hizbullah opponents, especially the Shi'ites among them. For example, Mustafa 'Aloush, deputy chair of the Al-Mustaqbal faction, claimed that   the assassination was "a messa...